THE COAL STRIKE
| CABLE NEWS
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WORK BEING RESUMED
LABOUR LEADER'S PROPHECY.
(Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock;)
LONDON, April 9. There are 180,000 miners now working, and the majority of the others > will resume to-day, though there is much ill-feeling in the North of England on account of work being resumed. The-resumption of work in Durham and North .Wales has been delayed by the attitude of the enginemen. The Durham, engineers are now earning 5s 4d per .shift, 1 and demand an increase of Bd, and an eight hours' day. The masters are offering,an increase of 4d. ' ■ Mr : V. -Hartshorn/,, the Olaimorgin Lalbour leader,, speaking at Maesteg, ' said that preparations were, -being made'foiva. labour imovfement of unpm. ! cedenited magnitude. The threatened' i pressure upon the Government to in-: troduee legislation; preventing; the workers from holding up,the country necessitated union between, the transport)'workers, railwaymeii and the miners. He believed that 2,000,10) would foe striking within a few months /for a, national eight hours' day and a /national minimum wage. .
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10604, 10 April 1912, Page 5
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176THE COAL STRIKE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10604, 10 April 1912, Page 5
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